Reddit reviews The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete BBC Radio Series

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The tldr is: old book on totalitarianism.

• Audio book
  
• ePub
  
  Could also pick it up from a library...
  
  It's like how Hitchhikers Guide is so big.
  
  ... wait what 14 CDs? BBC Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy BBC Radio Show (Amazon).
  
  The Trilogy of Five is a good book too... I'd rec it.

Buy it, it is worth it.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/1602834792/ref=dp_olp_new?ie=UTF8&condition=new

Sorry, here, check it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_(radio_series)

You can either get it from Amazon for $85 (ouch!) or find it elsewhere. I think it's really great and actually enjoyed it more than the book (having read the book first.)

Nothing that you can stream, that I can find, but Amazon does have all five parts in one CD set, if you're interested.

If you're in the UK, there's a CD box-set for £40.

If you're in the US, the whole set is nearly $87.

But "season one" (Guide and Restaurant) are on CD for about $20.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Complete BBC Radio Series. It is a full cast dramatization complete with sound effects. It's funny as hell and very long. Plus you can listen to it multiple times and it doesn't get old. It is rather expensive ($100 used) but worth it for the length and overall badassery.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1602834792/ref=redir_mdp_mobile

The Deluxe Version is awesome

And the BBC Radio series is not too shabby either.

The Complete BBC Radio Series was recently (2008) released, too. Includes the original Primary and Secondary phases, as well as extended versions of the Tertiary, Quandary and Quintessential phases which were produced by Dirk Maggs and released starting in 2004.

They say your first H2G2 will be your favorite, and the radio series was mine. It holds a special place in my heart.

For me...Marvin will always be Stephen Moore and Ford will always be Geoffrey McGivern, as in the original radio plays (actually, all the radio plays, for that matter).

Back before it was available in the US, I ordered the complete set of all the radio plays from amazon.co.uk. Worth every penny (EDIT: and yes, £0.01 is still called a "penny", at least since they switched to decimal currency).

I listened to the BBC radio series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy over and over in middle school and high school, mostly on the way to Girl Scout camp every summer.

Let the geekyness of that sentence sink in.

At one point, the entire station wagon of girls could recite long passages of this at the top of our lungs together, much to the chagrin of the poor mother who got shanghai'd into driving us. (It's a Vogon Constructor FLEET dammit, not a ship!)

Those cassettes are long gone I'm sure, and I don't even think I have anything that would play them anymore anyways. I've been trying to save up for these, but REAL LIFE keeps getting in the way.

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